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April 27, 2009
March 15, 2009
February 21, 2009
February 19, 2009
February 5, 2009
Speed Run
This guy makes it look so easy. Many a weekday afternoon was spent trying to beat this game.
January 12, 2009
December 27, 2008
December 19, 2008
December 18, 2008
I'm honestly not sure if anyone still checks this (other that me, and, obviously, Jeff, who is the lone remaining contributor), but I saw this and immediately thought of high school:
Seriously. Real Headline. Here is the story.
Reminds me of a joke I heard in high school. Anyone?
And apologies to Jeff.... if, indeed, you are the only one still reading this, you probably won't understand since I am alluding to a quasi-inside joke.
December 14, 2008
The More Facebook Friends You Have...
A recent study of college freshmen showed those with 200 or more Facebook friends scored lower self-esteem than those with less than 200 Facebook friends.
Link to the study is here.
The reasoning behind it is those with 200 friends are likely not to go out and stress about real-life friends.
December 10, 2008
September 21, 2008
In the Middle
Just in case you hadn't heard. High is now Middle.
But you can still see "High School" on the sign....
August 28, 2008
August 12, 2008
July 3, 2008
How to Photograph Fireworks
I wrote this for another website. Your mileage may vary:
Many a budding shutterbug has attempted unsuccessfully to photograph fireworks by merely pointing their film camera to the sky and shooting, resulting dark useless prints.
With the advent of digital photography, photographing fireworks has become easy, just by following some basic steps:
- Find a location away from the crowd and power lines. An elevated location on a hillside or on the back of a pickup truck might be adequate. You might even want to scout out your perch beforehand.
- Set your camera to use standard quality pics. Having too high quality settings will result in too long of write speed, thereby making you miss shots.
- Set the shutter speed to 1 second or longer.
- Use a tripod. If you can't find a tripod use a nice steady base.
- Turn off the flash. This might seem like common sense. Remember you are photographing lights. Any light projected onto another light will merely take away from the light you are trying to photograph.
- Point your camera toward the sky and shoot. A key to getting a good shot is anticipating when the firework will explode. Initially You will have many hit and miss shots. As the show goes along, you will be able to perfect your timing thereby getting excellent shots. Being able to review the shots afterwards and delete the poor quality shots is satisfaction enough, rather than using up a great amount of film with a film camera.
July 1, 2008
one-way tickets
Here's our address for the next...at least 3 months.
Write sweetly and often?
We love and miss you guys, especially you ones we're used to seeing around.
Let's hook up for an alternative 10 year reunion or something...your thoughts?
Josh & Jesse Hunter, PCTs
c/o Country Director
Howard Anderson
Peace Corps
8 Worthington Avenue
Kingston 5
Jamaica, West Indies
May 29, 2008
I Have Schizophrenia
Well, actually I don't have schizophrenia, but these people do. A surprisingly good episode from MTV's True Life.
Some thoughts -
Josh doesn't want help. His mother is pretty much fed up with him and wants him voluntarily committed. He will probably end up on the street.
I'm not even sure that Amber has schizophrenia at all. She seems just depressed and very unsure of herself. She's afraid to take a speech class, but has the ability to broadcast her life on MTV?
I felt the most sympathy for Ben. Many many people get as depressed as him. His father's and grandfather's illness doesn't help his mental state. However he has a supportive family, so hopefully everything will work out for him.
May 25, 2008
May 16, 2008
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